As to the Fate of the Jedi and Legacy series I do feel like they really were kind of overreaching. I mean after the Emperor, Thrawn, the Warlords and the Yuuzhan Vong the second Galactic Civil War just seemed like a poor sequel. It's not really the authors fault I mean how could you top the Vong War in terms of crisis, doom and emotional heaves? All the Legacy and Fate novels did was repeat the prequel crisis on a smaller scale, lesser pretend Sith come back, jacen follows his grandfather's missteps and so on. I just couldn't get into those series like I did the NJO, X Wing series, Thrawn Books and Darksaber. Daala coming back as head of the Galactic Alliance too also just seemed too improbable to me.
I do like the legacy era though. Not because of the books (I agree with you that it's a been there done that storyline that brings nothing to the table), but because I like the Pallaeon SD's.
I thought Legacy was a bit too much 'been there done that' too, but I really like the Fate of the Jedi series. It has a lot of interesting stuff going on. I just can't tell you how interesting I find it, they even did a really good job with bringing in new Sith bad guys (The Lost Tribe) and making them interesting. The entire series has been good. Good non-stupid character interactions, long drawn out plots, Great twists and suprises, ect. I hope the don't do anymore Sith in a new series, if they do that is where I jump ship. I am really interested to see what happens to Allana, they are hinting a lot about her possible future.
@tlmiller, I agree. Pallaeon SD's (Although I wasn't a big fan of the Legacy Comic Books at all) are really cool, but all Star Destroyers are cool. I think we all remember that moment in A New Hope when we first saw the Star Destroyer, check that we all remember the first moment we saw the opening scene in Episode IV. Went a little long here... and way off-topic but anyhow, Sorry.